With two daughters under 4 years old in the house, Mark Zuckerberg had to get creative when it came to helping his wife get some shut-eye.
The
Facebook co-founder, 34, revealed on – where else? – Facebook that he
recently created something he calls the Sleep Box in order to help wife
Priscilla Chan, who is a pediatrician and philanthropist, stay asleep at
night.
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“Being
a mom is hard, and since we’ve had kids Priscilla has had a hard time
sleeping through the night,” Zuckerberg wrote of his invention. “She’ll
wake up and check the time on her phone to see if the kids might wake up
soon, but then knowing the time stresses her out and she can’t fall
back asleep.”
Zuckerberg, who shares two daughters, Maxima “Max,”
3, and August, 1½, with Chan, said the dilemma led him to create a
small wooden box that sits atop Priscilla’s nightstand and puts out a
dim light between the hours of 6 and 7 a.m.
The
father of two noted that the light is “visible enough that if she sees
it she’ll know it’s an okay time for one of us to get the kids, but
faint enough that the light won’t wake her up if she’s still sleeping.”
August Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Max Zuckerberg | Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook
The
box isn’t a clock, and doesn’t show the time so that if Priscilla wakes
up in the middle of the night, she knows she can go back to sleep
without fear of sleeping too long.
Zuckerberg said the invention has so far worked better than he expected, and his wife is now able to sleep through the night.
“As
an engineer, building a device to help my partner sleep better is one
of the best ways I can think of to express my love and gratitude,” he
wrote. “A bunch of my friends have told me they’d want something like
this, so I’m putting this out there in case another entrepreneur wants
to run with this and build sleep boxes for more people!”
Since becoming a father, Zuckerberg has previously opened up how parenting has changed the way he runs his business.
“Having
kids does change how you think about the world in a pretty dramatic
way,” he said during a college town hall in March 2017, CNBC reported.
At
the time, Zuckerberg and Facebook announced the company’s extension of
its parental leave policy of four paid months to full-time employees of
any gender and to same-sex couples.
Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Invention He Created to Help His Wife Sleep Better: 'Being a Mom Is Hard'
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